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Monique Nijhuis

During first day of the World Cup in Berlin rained again world records. Not really surprising since the World Cup circuit for years so that in the course of the games harder bathing. Today meant that 6 world record, but also 3 Dutch records. Meet remarkable achievement for one of those Dutch records was the bronze age of Monique Nijhuis in the 100m breaststroke in a thick record of 04.01.56. This improved her own record of the series this morning (01.05.13), which in turn was an improvement of its record of 06.01.63. With that performance, she was 'Best of the rest' achteer Leisel Jones (all the way back from her sabbatical with a new world record of 03.01.00) and Jessica Hardy (01/03/30 also with the former record of Jones from 1/3/72 2008)

The finale of Day 1 is in its entirety to look back at the site of Universal Sports . (The race starts here on the 100school 37min14, awards ceremony at 1.uur21min40)

Leisel Jones swims on 03/01/00 100school

Dutch record number 3 was Robin Aggele of the 100m medley in 52.31, good for 5th place in the finals. The old record was 52.38 Robin with all of the Short Course Championships in Rijeka. The winner was Sergey Fesikov from Russia with 50.96 only 0.01 above his own world record this morning remained. Then he swam 50.95 with Ryan Lochte from the books. Lochte was at the Short Course World Championships in Manchester 2008 came to 51.15. (Start time: 1uur33min42)

In that same World Cup in 2008, Kristy Coventry the world record in the 200m backstroke in 2.00.91 put an absolute stop time. Today was, however, Shiho Sakai, who so well under swam 2.00.18. Unfortunately for Sakai was a breakthrough of the border just 2 minutes away, but possibly they reached the final round of the World Cup in Shanghai have a chance. (Start time: 1uur50min34) A comparison between the race of Coventry and Sakai:
Coventry: 28.48 - 58.69 (30.21) - 1:29.71 (31.02) - 2:00.91 (31.20)
Sakai: 27.91 - 58.66 (30.75) - 1:29.49 (30.83) - 2:00.18 (30.69)

Shiho Sakai towards the WR 200rug

Paul Biedermann (Photo Maritn Rose / Getty Images)

Also another deemed untouchable world record was killed today and be on the 400vrij for the men. In 2002, Grant Hackett in Sydney 3.34.58 needed it for the 16 jobs in the 25m pool, a time that only Ian Thorpe (Stockholm Cup 2003) was approached with 3.34.63. Today however, it was Paul Biedermann with 3.32.77 (with a final 50m of 25.43, after the first 50m of 25.48) that record smashed. On the first 100m Biedermann was still 1.3 seconds behind the schematic of Hackett. After 200m the difference with 1.2 seconds remained virtually the same, but then the acceleration of Biedermann impressive. At the 300m point he was still only 0.4 behind Hackett and with a final 100m of 54.12 (!) Came so 3.32.77 on the clock. It is remarkable fact that Paul after his turning point is not really much to do in his underwater phase out after a powerful sales remain particularly well streamlined. (Start time: 1uur5min46)

Cameron van der Burgh improved in the 50m breaststroke his own world record by almost 2 tenths to 25.25 (was 25.43). (Start time: 34min07) And it was Therese Alshammer held in Stockholm in the final race of day 2 the world record 50m butterfly aanscherpte, Steffen Deibler today was that of the men in the final race on day 1 did. In a very exciting duel he beat Roland Schoeman by only 0.07. Both men appeared with their end below the record what Steffen had swum in Aachen on 24 October, before Steffen was now 21.80, 21.87 for Roland. (Start time: 1uur55min44)

Steffen Deibler after his WR on the 50vlinder

Joeri Verlinden won the 200m butterfly final again this time with 1.52.61 and finished in 6th place. In addition, he had Michael Phelps just for show, because that was 5th in 1.52.26, a race which was won by Nikolay Skvortsov in 1.50.58.

In the 50m free at the ladies there was gold again for Therese Alshammer, just before Hinkelien Schreuder in a personal best of 23.60 and Inge Dekker at position 4 in 24.77 (also a personal record). Alshammer remained 23.34 only 0.09 away from the world what Marleen Veldhuis in Manchester 2008 has put on 23.25. (Start time: 1uur26min24)